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How old are you? Your audiogram looks OK for a 65-year-old.

Most people are here because of hearing loss acquired by obvious and less obvious means. In my case, I suspect that the main cause was a soft blow to my left ear while landing on a yoga mat. Somehow, I lost the high-frequency hearing (>10 kHz). This is just speculation because I will never...

@Lucia Zuani, I used AudioCardio for 6 months. It is a waste of time and money.

Actually, he is endorsing music rather sound therapy. I agree that music is better than just sound because music is able to reach your emotions. Once one is able to listen and enjoy music with relentless tinnitus, habituation is in reach.

Wearing the noise-cancelling headphones all day is not a good term solution, and probably making the noise sensitivity worse because your hearing is not used to be around noise anymore. I had a very long period that I was very afraid of noises because of my reactive tinnitus, but slowly I...

"Getting used to it", "living with it" are disguised with fancy names: neuroplasticity, habituation... At the end, no matter what, tinnitus improves for some people, it remains the same for the majority, and get worse for a few people. The path of this illness is independent of what you do, as...

You have tried so many things... However, the right answer is to do nothing. If I had to start to my tinnitus journey again, the truth is that I would avoid any fight against the monster.

Are you reactive to comments or oversensitive to comments? If you were less dogmatic, you would get fewer criticisms. "Oversensitivity to noise hyperacusis" is an opaque term, "reactive tinnitus" is not.

We all agree about what reactive tinnitus is, except @Michael Leigh. It does not matter whether it is a medical condition or not. This term simply helps to communicate a very specific flavor of the tinnitus experience, and not a very nice one by the way. I don’t understand the persistence and...

I don't care about what those without tinnitus have to say about tinnitus. They are ignorants.

@ErikaS, fluctuations are very common. My tinnitus has been very fluctuating in volume and sound type since the onset 9 years ago. Now, it is just a bit more stable than during the first few months, but I still get very different sounds that change every few hours or every few days. One of the...

Most hearing aids are only good up to 8 kHz. If your hearing loss is in the high frequencies (as is mine), hearing aids will be useless.

My own experience is that Klonopin is the only prescription that I have taken and produced significant clinical improvement in my tinnitus. Unfortunately, it only works when it is taken from time to time. It is best to reserve it for spikes or really bad days. It helps with sleep as well...

Habituation is work in progress: one can always habituate more... I am not a good example of it, my tinnitus is still a big issue even if it does not produce significant anxiety or depression anymore.

My last update in the thread was from December 2017. I am not sure if you are referring to the effect of the "treatment" or to how my tinnitus is today. In general, my tinnitus today is still in the same range as it was after onset. However, I will say that the chronicity matters and it is...

One can find anything in the internet.

My tinnitus is still going strong... This path is a dead end and a cautionary tale about what not to do.

There will be a cure for tinnitus, but not in our lifetimes. For practical purposes, that is equivalent to saying that there is no cure for tinnitus. Saying otherwise is just fooling yourself, and that might be OK after all. Work on your habituation...

I am not a hater, I am just skeptical of your dubious methods and claims. Just a couple of messages ago you were renegading of Dr. De Ridder because he was likely not providing the right protocol as you wanted. In the next message, he is great again. In another recent message, you claim that...

Darkness and Tinnitus. A great combination....

All treatments/cures for tinnitus available in 2022 are scams. We are left with just habituation. Come on, it is not as bad as it sounds.:)

This is not better than any other sound therapy. If you have actual physiological hearing damage this will not work. In the 106 pages of this thread and more than two years of existence, there are just a few random, anecdotal reports that it might help. In summary, overrated and only...

You should ask for intratympanic steroid injections since they are much better than the oral Prednisone and do not have side effects. My personal experience is that oral Prednisone does next to nothing, and you might have a better chance with the intratympanic injections. I had two hearing...

@DebInAustralia, there is no magic recipe for habituation, and I do not consider myself a good example of it. I still have up and downs, and I am not immune to relapse. Simply, the anxiety is more manageable because I know the range of my tinnitus and there are no surprises or additional fears...

@Pistolpete, I was in the same condition as you are for several years... It is terrible, but I assure you that it can be overcome and life can be livable and even enjoyable again. Stop blaming yourself, your depression is not making the tinnitus worse, it is all about your perception of it. My...

@imaginElizabeth, the symptoms that you mention sound like Meniere's, labyrinthitis or similar. Perhaps the infection that you had in March and you took antibiotics for did not really clear up. Microbial overgrowth in the middle ear is often overlooked as cause of apparently unrelated hearing...

One of the main metrics is the tinnitus frequency. This is an obvious indication of the hearing loss or damage location. However, surprisingly almost no one talks about that important clue. I have tinnitus only in my left ear. The tinnitus frequency is ~10 kHz. My left ear high frequency...

Your audiologist likely tested only to 8 kHz that is the standard audiology test. You should request the high frequency test to 16 kHz. What is the sound frequency of your tinnitus? This is a very important clue. I play synth music and own several keyboards also. I did not notice any change in...

@JimmyR, tinnitus is a symptom of your auditory system having been damaged (most commonly hearing loss). Tinnitus is the effect and not the cause. An analogy to your logic will be thinking that leg pain is the cause of a broken leg. It makes more sense the other way around. I have hearing loss...

@Amy42, there is no much that you can do beyond wait and see. This is just the 21st century and most conditions are intractable in spite of the medical marketing. TRT does not cure or really treat tinnitus: it is just a method to help the habituation process. Habituation and acceptance are...

The funny thing is that none of the tinnitus depictions in movies after gunshots or explosions sound like tinnitus to me. There are just ideal versions of tinnitus: perfect, crystalline high frequency tones. I wish I had that. Another recent movie about hearing loss is “Sound of Metal”. A rock...

I have been taking NAD+ & Resveratrol for a couple of years. They've had no effect on tinnitus whatsoever. Indeed, I am not taking them because of tinnitus. @juliob, you keep fighting the tinnitus, and that will lead you to more disappointments because there is no supplement in the world that...

Tinnitus is God trying to talk you, but he is stuttering non stop.

My hearing has deteriorated since my tinnitus onset 8 years ago. It is likely a mix of aging and fate. Especially my left ear is now even more asymmetric compared to the right ear. However, the tinnitus is about the same as early on, even after the hearing worsening. The story in my previous...

@Forever hopeful, it is a very complicated story. I had an ear infection in my left ear when I was a teenager and I lost high frequency hearing. Passing years made the difference negligible, but I never really quantify it because I did not have any hearing issues. It only became a problem...

@Forever hopeful, my tinnitus sounds similar to yours. In my case, I think that the root cause is very high frequency hearing loss. It is difficult to habituate, but you will get there slowly. There is no alternative.

I think he is kind because he has not tried your treatment. :)

@R. David Case, I am attaching the link to the initial studies on high frequencies/ultrasound on tinnitus. As usual, the study showed promise, but I don't think that it was really developed or was really successful. Dr. Shulman was involved, one of the great tinnitus researchers...

Money has never been an issue. You can download the file for free at the link included in the early pages of this thread. The problem is really about credibility and efficacy.

@ErnieMassri, it sounds like a very low dose of Xanax, and I think that is unlikely to have serious side effects. There is a lot of misinformation about benzos. Most people take very low doses. I recall asking a psychiatrist what will be withdrawing from 0.5 mg Klonopin, and he says that he had...

@CompostInTraining, tinnitus is always there. It is you and your relationship to it. Choose hate, love or ignore it. The way to win is to decouple from the tinnitus, it takes a long time and will remind you of your weak points very often no matter what.

I did not have any side effects from COVID-19 vaccine and booster. I did not have any doubt about vaccination as a positive path to fight COVID-19.

I am sure that those 1370 people they still have chronic tinnitus. If you read with objectivity (something that you lack) you will realize that @Optic Axis still has tinnitus, prefers his own sound file to yours, and he is just trying to be nice to you. If this is your definition of success then...

I don't take anything for tinnitus because there is nothing that I have tried that had any real positive effect with the exception of Klonopin (and it is not consistent and not a long term solution). I take Resveracel daily that is NAD + Resveratrol just for general health, and 15mg of...

Note that one of the usual tinnitus delusions is the search of a root cause that can be fixed. We all secretly wish that we have some other health problem that magically will solve the noise in our heads. Just be aware of that thinking bias, and try to objective about when to stop or...

@hartstreet, I don't understand why the chiropractic work should help when the root cause are nasal and ear infection as stated by yourself. How is your hearing? Do you have reliable audiology tests going to 12 kHz?

@Reid, the next step is intratympanic steroids. Much more effective than the oral variety. Ask your ENT about this variation of the treatment. I know that it sounds a bit scary, but it is not a painful process at all. Other than this, there is not much that can be done and you will have to wait...

The tinnitus ecosystem is not a healthy one: the more time you have tinnitus, the more you realize the huge amount bullshit surrounding us. When I started my tinnitus journey I thought there will be something out there to help, I could not believe what ENTs and audiologists were saying. Eight...

None, because this is not the kind of research that we need. Psychological treatments do not treat root cause, and are just band aids.

It is very obvious that Mr. Cowan Hill is just a tinnitus money maker and he uses New Age like therapies without any value. I am sure that some people will feel better with his treatment because they are so lost in Tinnitus Hell.